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On
August 18, 2018, during the Riga Days, the residents and guests of Riga
could get acquainted with aviation technology and pilots.
One had an opportunity to watch stunt flights and paratroopers jumping.

By the will of fate, in 1930 Olga Benois settled down in Riga with
her daughters Olga and Lydia. Olga Benois (born Waldman) was the widow
of Jelisey (Edward) Benois, who was the son of Saint-Petersburg
architect, academician Julius Benois (the cousin of Alexander Benois -
the famous artist, establisher and ideologist of "the World of Art"
union).

With the death of Edward's and Olga's daughter Olga in 1994, the Riga branch of the family caesed to exist.

Pavel
Seversky (Siversky) (1875-1943) - a former colonel of the Russian army,
like many of his colleagues in the past, having found himself in
emigration was forced to significantly change his way of life